14.3% ▲ +16.9%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Moorabool · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Moorabool
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Most residents in Moorabool share a deep connection to British and Irish roots, creating a cultural landscape shaped by traditional European heritage. This is a predominantly Australian-born community where very few people were born overseas compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries at 39.2% and 38.8%, followed by Irish at 13.2% and Scottish at 11.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 14.3% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the Victoria figure of 30.0% and the national average of 27.7%. This proportion has risen slightly by 2.1 percentage points since 2011, with 80.4% of the population born in Australia.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Moorabool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA25150/moorabool/topic/ancestry-heritage